Jimmy Carr

[ell1]

I've just read about him making another sick joke, this time about people with Downs Syndrome. When will this man disappear from our TV screens, I really really dislike the 'man'.
I had an Aunt/Best Friend/Second Mam with Downs Syndrome, she was worth ten of him.
I made a video for her, she died in 2002 and I miss her so much everyday.
Please take a look....

ell1 what a beautiful memorial.

I'm so disappointed in Jimmy Carr, I don't understand why comedians get it so terribly wrong.

I just don't get why people like Jimmy Carr anyway. He doesn't seem naturally funny and comedians should be, surely. Whenever I see him on panel shows he has no sense of comic timing but simply waits for an opportunity to interject his rehearsed lines. He doesn't seem able to make genuinely funny and inoffensive observations but rather his act is based on offending people. Perhaps if people realised this he would have no platform for his nasty views.

ell1 what a fantastic youtube clip, she looked so happy and I loved the bridesmaid photos

Just watched the YouTube clip- lovely!

I haven't heard the joke so I can't say either way whether Jimmy Carr got it right or wrong. However, I think sometimes we're too quick to want to exclude people with Downs Syndrome and other conditions from comedy references for no reason other than it gets labelled as 'sick'. There were facebook protests before the new Merchant/Gervais/Davis sitcom came out - purely because the central character is a dwarf, not because anyone had seen the show itself. That kind of prejudgement is wrong, surely?

Lovely slideshow, ell1.

Beautiful video, elf1.
A life full of love. What a shame empty vessels like Carr can't feel or understand.

This is an article about what he said

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065573/Jimmy-Carr-blasted-sick-Downs-syndrome-joke.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Why is he hosting TV programmes at all? If he made racist jokes, they wouldn't have him hosting TV shows.

'an empty vessel', indeed. Carr, Boyle et al have made this sort of bullying humour acceptable for too long now. They are the sort of comedians who would have told racist jokes in the 70's, but now they can't, they have to pick on other minority groups who won't be in the audience and who won't come up and punch them in the face after the show. I hope the tide is turning since the Gervais twitter shit. Carr's comments about people with special needs haven't hit the headlines before as far as I remember.

I have a beautiful 4 year old daughter with Down's Syndrome and I find it deeply upsetting that it's still seen as ok for so called comedians to take the p* out of people with Down's Syndrome. My daughter's life is heartbreakingly tough enough already, without society thinking it's ok to laugh at her. What I don't understand is that if Jimmy Carr had made a joke about a bus full of black people, or a bus of muslims, everyone would rightly be outraged. But because it was a joke about people who are disabled it's somehow ok. It's all the more depressing because people with learning disabilities can't answer back - it is the classic action of a bully - pick on those weaker than yourself who can't fight back.